Foxconn: iPhone 5 is the Most Difficult iPhone to Make; Productivity is Improving

If you have been waiting a long time to get your hands on Apple’s new iPhone 5 due to the long shipping wait times, then some good news has surfaced. Foxconn says productivity is "improving."

Foxconn has been the main assembler of several of Apple's devices. Out of all of them, Foxconn notes how the iPhone 5 is the "most difficult" to produce due to its "complicated" thin and light design. Over the time of making the iPhone 5, Foxconn hopes to get better at making it and reduce error while improving production speed at the same time:

Originally Posted by Foxconn Executive

The iPhone 5 is the most difficult device that Foxconn has ever assembled. To make it light and thin, the design is very complicated. It takes time to learn how to make this new device. Practice makes perfect. Our productivity has been improving day by day.

It’s understandable how the device might be more difficult to produce. Apple explains to us in their iPhone 5 introduction video (shown at the Keynote) that the iPhone 5 took a lot of work from the engineering team to pack all of the internal hardware into such a small amount of space.

Apple also told us how the iPhone 5 is designed down to the "micron," ensuring that every part is precision-made to look the way it does. Precision is the most likely reason for the slower production of the iPhone 5, as rushing leads to mistakes.

I got my 5 last Wednesday, didn't actually take it out the box until Friday noticed that it came with an impression under the apple and the sides on back were already scratched. Go Foxconn and hiring under aged kids to work and eff up my phone. Too excited to really look it over.

Maybe they should have used some of that precision during the brain-storming of the R&D and quality control of this device considering all the scratches, scuffs, dirt, and damage that people are receiving their iPhones with. Designed to the micron.....get real!